About C4Q Tech Bash

Join us at our Fifth Annual Gala to celebrate the growth of C4Q, Access Code, and our amazing community. Hosted at MoMA PS1 Contemporary Arts Museum in Long Island City, the Bash Investors Dinner starts at 6:00 PM and doors open at 7:00 PM for the main event.

The Bash Investors Dinner is a special reception for Investor ticket holders. You will have the opportunity to join us for a private cocktail hour and viewing of the James Turrell “Meeting” exhibit. Enjoy a beautiful seated dinner while interacting with C4Q fellows and valued supporters in an intimate setting.

Your contribution provides more opportunities for adults from low-income and diverse backgrounds to learn to code, gain jobs in tech, and create companies of the future!

We are excited to honor leaders that are committed to building an inclusive community. We thank them for their contributions and recognize their achievements.

Bash Honorees

Prior to Co-founding Compound VC, David spent his entire career leading sales and business development teams for tech companies working alongside engineering and product functions to commercialize the company's products and spearheading monetization. Google brought on David as their second employee in the New York headquarters in 2000. David then spearheaded the company's monetization strategy by co-founding Google's Vertical Markets Group and wiring the regional sales team structure. For eight years, he oversaw cross-functional and cross-business responsibilities. David has served on the boards of Girls Who Code, the Sonima Foundation, and the River Fund NY.

Oyeshola Olatoye (“Shola”) was appointed Chair & Chief Executive Officer, New York City Housing Authority (NYCHA) in 2014 by Mayor Bill de Blasio. NYCHA is the largest public housing authority in the nation. Chair Olatoye leads NYCHA’s efforts to help preserve the City’s largest source of affordable rental housing. Before her appointment at NYCHA, she was Vice President and New York Market Leader for Enterprise Community Partners, a national nonprofit that has helped build or preserve more than 44,000 affordable homes for lower-income New Yorkers and has invested more than $2.5 billion in and around the city.

Ilia Papas is the Founder and CTO of Blue Apron. Prior to founding Blue Apron, Ilia was a director and technical architect at Optaros in Boston, where he led Walmart.com to launch a new platform for their Health category. He also helped architect, build, and launch RueLaLa.com, a popular private-event retail site, and has built solutions for CNN, PUMA, Turner Broadcasting, and Macy's. He holds a bachelor's degree in computer science from Tufts University.

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About C4Q

C4Q trains talented and diverse adults as software engineers and helps place them at leading tech companies.

Our graduates go from making $18,000 to over $85,000 post-program and are hired by leading companies such as Pinterest, Kickstarter, LinkedIn, Jet, and JPMorgan Chase. Participants are representative of the diversity of the NYC community with over 50% women, 60% African American or Hispanic, 50% immigrant, and 50% without a college education. With tens of millions of working poor and increasing blue-collar job loss due to automation and technology, we are transforming adult training to help more people achieve economic self-sufficiency and create a diverse tech community representative of America.